Central Americans asylum seekers sent to
Mexico by the
United States to await their U.S. court dates increasingly become the victims of kidnappings and other types of violence, aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report published on Tuesday.
In a bid to slash asylum claims, the administration of President
Donald Trump launched an initiative in January 2019 that has forced more than 57,000 non-Mexican migrants to wait in Mexico for their U.S.
immigration court hearings, under a program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).
MPP, sometimes called Remain in Mexico, is among various overlapping U.S. policies aimed at discouraging asylum seekers.